BRISTOL Stop-The-War *SUPPLEMENT* : 19th April 2004

For EYEWITNESS Accounts From A Bristolian In IRAQ:
Jo Wildings Website:  http://www.wildfirejo.org.uk/feature/index.php

Keep An Eye On BRISTOL ACTIVISTS For Emergency Events:
Visit:  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bristol-activists/


CONTENTS

1) Protest : Stop The Massacre In Fallujah : 20th April
2) Protest : Alastair Campbell Visits Bristol : 21st April
3) Protest : Free Mordechai & Fallujah Vigil : 21st April
4) Fallujah : Emergency Open Discussion : 22nd April
5) Correction : Iraq War On Trial Update : 26-30th April
6) MayDay : Join Dublins' Celebrations : 30 Apr-3 May
7) Palestine Update : A Few Things You Should Know



1) DEMO : STOP THE MASSACRE IN FALLUJAH : TUE 20th APRIL
An Independent Midday Protest. Everyone Is Welcome To Attend.
If You're An Office Worker In The Centre, Please Spread The Word.
DATE: Tue 20th April. TIME: 12:00noon. MEET: The Vigil Spot.
Opposite The Hippodrome. St. Augustines Parade. City Centre. MAP BELOW:
 http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?gride=358590&gridn=172858&title
ACT AGAINST THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ AND STATE TERRORISM.
Over 800 Civilians Civilians & 1800 Injured By U.S Attack On Fallujah...
Bodies Left In The Streets... Hospitals & Homes Destroyed...
Fleeing Refugees Shot By U.S Occupation Troops...
Ambulances Targeted By U.S Sniper Fire...
PLEASE BRING WHAT YOU NEED. MAKE PLACARDS & BANNERS...
Fullajah has now been under siege since 5th April. Between unstable ceasefires Fallujah is racked by U.S bombing, and is now descending into a street by street civilian war. "The front lines in the siege of Fallujah are the realm of snipers, as riflemen
on both sides of the fight seize the high points of the streetscape."


2) PROTEST : ALASTAIR CAMPELL COMES TO BRISTOL : TUE 20th APRIL
Dodgy Dossier Himself To Visit Bristol. Join The Protests Outside Colston Hall.
DATE: Tue 20th April. TIME: 7:30pm (Advertised Start Of 8:00pm).
PLACE: Colston Hall. Colston St. Bristol City Centre. MAP BELOW:
 http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=358574&Y=173126&A=Y&Z=1
PLEASE BRING WHAT YOU NEED. MAKE PLACARDS & BANNERS...
Unfortunately this spin doctor of illegal warfare needs no further introduction.
DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATION, ALASTAIR CAMPBELL, ANAGRAMS...
Rearranging the letters of 'Director of Communications Alastair Campbell' gives:
I'm Labour's spin doctor: a fat, comical, male cretin...
Impudent liar concocts a tale of microbial arms...
PM Blair's crocodilian miscreant. Fatal outcome...
I'm a comical, farce talent. I'm Labour's spin doctor...
Labour's fatal, complacent, idiocratic misnomer...
Prim Blair liar concocts. Fatal outcome. Man dies...
One top Labour mastermind? It's farcical, comical...
PM Blair's ace criminal in doctor's fatal outcome...
I am Blair's politico monster. Malconduct? A farce...
Blair's malformed amateur politician concocts...


3) FREE MORDECHAI & FALLUJAH VIGIL & PROTEST : WED 21st APRIL
Please See 'Next International Peace Vigil' In Our Main Newsletter For More:
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bristol-stop-the-war-coalition/message/2434
THIS WILL NOW BE A JOINT PROTEST AGAINST WAR CRIMES IN FALLUJAH.
"Mordechai Vanunu, who worked at the Dimona nuclear facility in the Negev Desert, told the London Sunday Times in 1986 about Israel's secret nuclear arsenal. He was subsequently abducted while in Rome, after being drugged by Israeli Secret Services.
Mordechai has been locked away for almost 18 years. Public pressure has brought changes over the years. In 1998, pressure from supporters around the world pried open the lock on Mordechai's isolation cell after eleven & a half eleven years in solitary.
ON WED 21st APRIL MORDECHAI VANUNU IS DUE TO BE RELEASED.
Please Join Us At The Vigil.  http://www.nonviolence.org/vanunu/index.html
DATE: Wed 21st April. TIME: 5:30-6:30pm (Maybe Till Later). MEET: Opposite
Hippodrome. St. Augustines Parade. City Centre. MAP BELOW:
 http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?gride=358590&gridn=172858&title


4) FALLUJAH : EMERGENCY OPEN DISCUSSION : THU 22nd APRIL
This last week has seen a number of emergency, and short-notice events called in response to the ongoing massacre by U.S forces occurring in Fallujah, Iraq. Please come to this emergency open discussion of Bristol-Stop-The-War to address what is happening, and how we can respond. Everyone's views and opinions need to be heard if we are to help a map a way forward for Bristols' anti-war movement.
ALSO : IRAQ WAR ON TRIAL (IWOT) : DISCUSSION & PRESENTATION
Main Link:  http://www.fairfordpeacewatch.com/iraqwarontrial.html
This was the original topic for discussion, and will still be going ahead too, as the attempts to disarm U.S B-52s stationed at Fairford, U.K last year, and the trials resulting from this, are indelibly connected to the current bombing of Fallujah, Iraq.
DATE: Thur 22nd April. TIME: 7:00-8:30pm. PLACE: St. Mary on the Quay Hall. City
Centre. Colston Ave. (Opposite War Memorial). MAP BELOW:
 http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=358680&Y=173128&A=Y&Z=1
PLEASE NOTE: There will be a microphone this time to counter the bad acoustics.


5) IRAQ WAR ON TRIAL AT HIGH COURT LEVEL : 26th - 30th APRIL 2004
Please See 'Iraq War On Trial In Bristol' In Our Main Newsletter For More:
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bristol-stop-the-war-coalition/message/2434
These Are Corrections To Vigil Times And Meeting Points.
ON THE MORNING OF MONDAY 26th PLEASE MEET AT THE VIGIL SPOT.
DATE: Mon 26th April. TIME: 8:30am. PLACE: Opposite The Hippodrome, St.
Augustines Parade. City Centre. MAP BELOW:
 http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?gride=358590&gridn=172858&title
From here there will be a dignified procession to Bristol Crown Court. This will be a show of solidarity with the defendants, & people of Fallujah, where in 2 weeks, US troops have killed 800 civilians, many of them elderly, women & children.
THIS WILL BE FOLLOWED BY DAILY VIGILS OUTSIDE THE COURT.
9:00-10:00am & 1:00-2:00pm Daily. MEET: Small St, Broadmead, Bristol.
100 yards from entrance to St. Nicholas market in Corn St. MAP BELOW:
 http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=358762&Y=173072&A=Y&Z=1
THERE WILL ALSO BE AN EXTRA LAST VIGIL ON FRIDAY 30th @4:00pm.
Latest Report:  http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire/display/15431/index.php
ACCOMODATION: If your from outside Bristol & want bed and floor space to show support at the Vigils (or if you can offer accomodation) Phone (0117) - 94 66 885


6) MAYDAY CELEBRATIONS IN DUBLIN : 30th APRIL - 3rd MAY
In addition to the MayDay events listed in the main April Newsletter, you may also be
interested in the 4 days of events taking place in Dublin, Republic Of Ireland.
MORE INFO:  http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=63926
"Events in Dublin framed as 'Say No To Fortress Europe - A Mayday No Borders Weekend', include cultural events, exhibitions, screenings, workshops, street theatre & visual actions on asylum seekers & refugees, housing, recycling, anti-war & public/private space. Also a Critical Mass protest, a Noise protest at the EU Ministers Dinner, a No Borders Camp, & Reclaim The Streets Party."
VIDEO INFO:  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/03/288185.html


7) PALESTINE UPDATE : A FEW THING YOU SHOULD KNOW
"In 1917, the British government promised Zionist settlers from Europe a homeland in Palestine 'a people without land, for a land without people.'  Arthur Balfour, as British
Foreign Secretary of the day, made this promise, as representative of an occupying colonial power - a promise that was not his to make. Today, in 2004, George Bush Junior promises to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon the continuing settlement of the West Bank of the Jordan that Israel conquered & occupied in 1967. Again, this is a promise by a Western colonial power, that it has no right at all to make.
International law clearly states that land or territory occupied in war must not be settled by the population of the occupier, or by putting homes or other installations upon it, Sharon & Bush - hardly for the first time - are flouting international law. Tony Blair is colluding with them in a blatant colonialist land grab. It is hardly relevant for Sharon to claim, as he does, that the West Bank of the Jordan formed part of Israel thirty centuries ago. It is to argue that because some of their ancestors once founded the place as a city, modern Italians have a claim on London, & a right forcibly to displace the inhabitants of Notting Hill or Camden. The future for Palestinians is bleak enough already. The world needs to wake up." By Margaret Jones (A Bristol STW Regular)



"The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling - their
ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of nevitability.
Remember this - we be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them. Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing." Arundhati Roy.

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